Player Safety

“You are the rot in the state of Denmark. Your country is aflame with the fires of revolution. The court of King Claudius is isolated in a bunker beneath the castle-fortress of Elsinore, escaping deeper into decadent madness and murderous…

“You are the rot in the state of Denmark. Your country is aflame with the fires of revolution. The court of King Claudius is isolated in a bunker beneath the castle-fortress of Elsinore, escaping deeper into decadent madness and murderous…

Safety & Calibration techniques are important design tools that help diverse players access your larp and create stories together. This article offers three Safety & Calibration Tools that have been in use since June 2016 and are now used internationally…

A number of high profile articles and discussions about safety in Nordic larp seem to imply that safety has become the primary concern for larp design. This article interrogates that implication by a series of interviews with larp designers, and…

any larps have adopted safe words, as a form of meta-communication between players (rather than between characters). While in normal interaction it is sometimes possible to read non-verbal clues of fear or distress, the embodied nature of larp means there…

Debriefing After Role-playing Games ebriefing is a somewhat controversial topic in role-playing communities today. While some individuals feel that games should remain distinct from the mundane world and debriefing is an unnecessary complication, many role-players have grown concerned about difficulties…